This paper is based on recently collected and rich survey data of a
representative sample of entrants into unemployment in Germany. Our data
include a large number of migration variables, allowing us to adapt a
recently developed concept of ethnic identity: the ethnosizer. To shed
further light on the native-migrant differences in economic outcomes, we
investigate the labor market reintegration, patterns of job search, and
reservation wages across unemployed migrants and natives in Germany. Our
results indicate that separated migrants have a relatively slow
reintegration into the labor market. We explain this finding by arguing
that this group exerts a relatively low search effort and that it has
reservation wages which are moderate, yet still above the level which
would imply similar employment probabilities as other groups of
migrants.